noun · masculine
nauklēros
Strong’sG3490
a master of a ship
stem nauklēr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ναύ-κληρος, -ου, ὁ
(< ναῦς, κλῆρος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3490 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
shipowner and merchant (opposed to ἔμπορος, which see), Refs 5th c.BC+
2 skipper, sailing-master, NT+2nd c.BC+
3 generally, captain, commander, Refs 4th c.BC+: as adjective, ν. πλάτη Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. χείρ the master's hand, of a charioteer, Refs 5th c.BC+
II at Athens, one who rented and sub-let tenement-houses, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ={ναύκραρος}, Refs; compare ναύκλαρος.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nauklēros | nauklērois |
| object accusative | nauklēron | nauklēroin |
| direct address vocative | nauklēror | nauklēroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nauklērou | nauklēroiu |
| to, for dative | nauklēro1×ναυκλήρῳ | nauklēroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
nauklēro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nauklēro“owner of the ship”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 27:11… de hekatontarchēos to kubernēto kai to nauklēro mallon peithote ē tei hupo Paulou …… by the pilot and by the owner of the ship.